I have a 500gb drive on a recent MBA. I have shrunk the OSX partition to 250gb to allow me to install Debian in the empty space.
When I go through the Debian installer, the guided partitioning only ...

I've shrinked my /home from 2.7TB to 100G, I've extended /root, /usr, /tmp and /var but I have been looking for a way to create an /opt partition for 3 hours now, and can't find it.
The setup is 3TB ...

Installing Mint 17.1 Cinnamon, I used the "something else" mode to set the partitions for root and home. But, it only showed sda and I could not find any way to select a different disk! I installed ...

I've a problem with increasing a partition from 20GB to 120GB, VMDK file.
Here is what I've done:
using vmware-diskmanager to increase vmdk file from 20 GB - 120 GB. It's ok.
download and boot from ...

I would like to used the yes command so that GNU parted does not wait for user input :
root@195-xxx-xxx-xxx:/proc# parted /dev/sda unit B resizepart 2 1166016512B
Warning: Shrinking a partition can ...

LVM only allows volume groups to be expanded by adding physical volumes. So if I have multiple volume groups which may need extra space, but it can't be predicted which will expand fastest, it's best ...

For some debugging purposes, I'd like to be able to manually set the dirty bit of a FAT32 partition to true.
I found tons of information on how to use fsck.vfat to remove the dirty bit, but none on ...

I attempted to change the partition table in my dual boot (mint/osx). OSX occupies too much space and I wanted to reallocate freed up space into mint's \home. In gpartition it seems as though I cannot ...

This is the first time this has happened to me.I don't use linux on a regular basis, except for some project work.
I had logged in today , finished my work and restarted it so I could go into windows ...

I have Linux Mint 17.1 and am trying to dual boot Windows 10 Technical Preview OR install it on my other hard drive. Extra easy damage-control for you guys- I do not care if I lose any data, as long ...

How do I install Slax 7.0.9 on the same hard drive as my Windows XP? Is it possible? I already have partitioned the hard drive to ext4 for linux using gparted. The hard drive also has a partition for ...

I have installed Ubunto 14.04 on sda1. but after the installation finished, all the partitions are gone . I have important data on sda5 , and when I run the following command : sudo fdisk -l in the ...

I shrunk my root partition and it seems nice. But I am thinking about overwriting now at least the most important files from the backup copy (external drive, rsync, weekly backup) in order to be sure ...

I have 2 users in my computer running Arch Linux. I recently moved a virtual installation of windows 7 from one user to another. I changed the owner of the moved folder to the new user recursively.
I ...

I have Windows 7 and am going to reformat/reinstall, but want to try a dual boot configuration with Linux mint. If I install Windows creating 3 partitions: one for Windows, one for Linux, and one for ...

I have tried to mount a SD card on Linux Mint, I have found the right device file and tried: mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/zauberportal ,but it failed and I tried some variations like different types of ...

What exactly are block bitmaps? Why would I get the following error:
The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 1219824640 blocks
The physical size of the device is 731447296 blocks
Either ...

I have heard if you don't make partitins in linux it is so hard to recovery your data. And if you make some partitions it would be easy to recovery.
for example if you make /par1 /part2 /part3 it is ...

I am trying to create Logical Volume on CentOS 7 on EC2 instance. After attaching the volume I am creating partition using fdisk, then I am starting the Logical Volume creation:
pvcreate /dev/xvda1
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